Teaching and Curriculum Development

The toughest audience anyone has ever encountered is middle schoolers. I’ve honed my entertainment skills by creating dynamic, narrative lessons and curriculum for students of all ages. I’ve also been a teaching artist teaching story telling with The Moth and sketch comedy with The UCB, and helped coach athlete’s like Gabby Douglass and Iman Shumpert in storytelling .

Nearpod’s Just a Minute Series

This is a series of videos explaining topics from ELA to Math and Science in just a minute. Videos are are differentiated for middle school through high school core standards.

Amplify’s Quest for the Core

Quests were games for middle school ELA that an entire class would play together. Above is a clip from an ending to our Edgar Allen Poe murder mystery, where students would solve which character of Poe’s murdered him by reading extra curricular Poe short stories and a link explaining several quests from Amplify’s 3rd through 5th grade curricul,